Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse publishes final report

On 20th October 2022 IICSA (Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse) published its final report which ran to over 400 pages, and included within its copious volumes 20 recommendations which have been posted online as a handy pdf file entitled “rapid reads” For those who wish to see more detail of the actual text there
Read more
3 Comments

Supreme Court has made “failure to care” cases against Local Councils troublesome

The case that started all the problems A landmark case called Poole Borough Council v CN & Another [2019] UKSC 25 created legal uncertainty in the area of “failure to care” cases when it went to the Supreme Court in 2019. So severe are the problems that another 2 cases will be heard by the
Read more
No Comments

Ampleforth College

The English Benedictine Congregation and other Roman Catholic religious orders make up one of the 13 strands of the Independent Investigation into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). In April 2017, it was announced that Ampleforth College in Yorkshire would be used as a case study for inquiries into other institutions, but what happened at the college?
Read more
No Comments